Expression 7 - Candide ou l'Optimisme

In *Candide*, Voltaire cheerfully takes aim at despotism of all kinds and advocates a humanism rooted in tolerance and pragmatic wisdom. A powerful sounding board for the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Nothing could be more useful, in these troubled times, than rediscovering an enlightened philosopher’s perspective on a world that was just beginning to emerge in its entirety. It is the magic lantern, an optical process that was booming in the 18thcentury, that the Anamorphose Group has chosen to use to tell us this coming-of-age story of a journey that will transform its eponymous hero into a Telemachus of a new kind.

1-hour show. By reservation only.